Hi, friends. I am Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. In this month, the Let's Read

the Gospels podcast is sponsored by our friends at Crew. The Gospels are the first four books

of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These are the stories

of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the

miracles. Here at the beginning of the month, I want to say again, welcome. If you're new

with us in May, we're so glad you're here. Each month, we read all four books about

three chapters a day. So go ahead and subscribe today and join us as we read the Gospels together.

We're just making a 30-day commitment to this rhythm for this month. I can't wait to

see how we are changed by the time June rolls around. We've got a couple of resources available

for you besides the daily podcast. One is the May reading plan that you can print out,

have beside you so you know what we're going to read every day. The other is the Let's Read

the Gospels guidebook that has some extras for a little bit of a deeper experience. A note

for me, some journal prompts, some fun extra activities. We release new pages every month.

And when you purchase the May guidebook, you get the PDFs for all the previous months.

So you'll actually get a thicker PDF that is January, February, March, April, and May.

And you'll get the pages for the rest of the year as they are released. You can find those

at antiefdowns.com slash Gospels. We're also on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. Just look

for Let's Read the Gospels. Here's how this works today. I'll read three chapters to you.

You can listen or read along in your own Bible. And then I'll pray. And that's it. So today

is May 2nd day two. And I'll be reading Matthew, chapters four through six. And this month

I'm reading from the CSB version. Matthew four, then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into

the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he

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